Brendon Roberts

London firm Mishcon de Reya faces a lawsuit alleging the firm knowingly assisted a founding partner of Lipman Karas to breach his duties when it reached an agreement to open a Hong Kong office.

A judge has signed off on a settlement of a long-running class action against Westpac unit BankSA, and has ruled the law firm that brought the case has an equitable right to unpaid legal costs for investigating the case before it found a funder.

The original solicitors who stepped down from leading a class action against Westpac unit BankSA amid abuse of process allegations will bring separate proceedings in the Federal Court seeking a bigger slice of the multi-million dollar settlement sum to cover their costs.